THERESA SECORD (PENOBSCOT)

Theresa Secord has been a traditional basketmaker for 30 years, using tools handed down from her great-grandmother of Indian Island, Maine, to weave baskets on antique wooden forms. “I create baskets to express my own values and aesthetic in our ancestral continuum of weaving,” she says. Secord will bring work with an emphasis on cedar bark overlay in traditional ash and sweetgrass baskets to Santa Fe Indian Market, and she explains, “This is to support conservation of the ash trees, as the newly discovered emerald ash borer beetle in Maine has begun its eradication of the sacred trees, from whence we trace our creation and our ancestral weaving materials.”